Charlie Cheever is the co-founder, along with Adam D'Angelo

Adam D'Angelo

Adam D'Angelo is the chief executive and co-founder of Quora, an online knowledge market based in Palo Alto, California.He was chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering.He left Facebook in 2008...

, of Quora, an online knowledge market

Knowledge market

A knowledge market is a mechanism for distributing knowledge resources. There are two views on knowledge and how knowledge markets can function. One view uses a legal construct of intellectual property to make knowledge a typical scarce resource, so the traditional commodity market mechanism can be...

. He was formerly an engineer and manager at Facebook

Facebook

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, where he oversaw the creation of Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform. Previous to Facebook Cheever was employed by Amazon.com

Amazon.com

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 in Seattle. He left the company to start Quora in June 2009.

Charlie Cheever is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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 and still has family in the area. Charlie is a graduate of Harvard College

Harvard College

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with an A.B. in Computer Science.